Title: Enjoy Your Life
Ecclesiastes (9) Enjoy Your Life (Ecclesiastes 3:16-22)
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How does God want believers to live? The three most important lives that God requires of people are first, to do justice, second, to love kindness, and third, to walk humbly with God (Micah 6:8). Justice, love, and humility are the three treasures that nourish a person's inner side. The problem is that justice and love are not properly demonstrated in human society (verse 16). In the end, the last place people can turn to is God. Wait for God's justice to be fully accomplished (verse 17).
If God's love and grace fall into man and he tests and judges him according to his sin, man becomes no better than an animal (verses 18-20). Therefore, you must be humble. Why does God sometimes give us hardships and prayer topics? It also means being humble. God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. What matters is how you see yourself, not how you feel about your environment. To think that you are enough is doubly insufficient, and to be full of self-confidence is doubly empty.
Many people today are humble, but often not. Being humble and being humble seem similar, but there is a big difference. Because there are people who show a humble attitude without being humble. That's even more wrong.
Now you know where you are and stick to it. If you rise a little bit higher and forget your position, a crisis in your life will come. When you become a humble spirit that respects God's order while maintaining your position, inner peace will come and you will find outer peace as well. Be more humble now. In fact, nothing is as difficult as humility, but never give up on humility. Without humility, there is no blessing. Humility is the best vessel for blessings.
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As man and beast die, so does man's soul go up (verse 21). It means that you will stand before the judgment seat of God and will be divided into eternal life and eternal punishment. What a blessing it is to believe in such a situation and become a citizen of heaven. That heavenly citizenship is the first source of hope.
U.S. citizenship is the most powerful thing in the world right now. But citizenship in heaven is better than any citizenship on earth. Why is it good to believe in Jesus? Because you will have citizenship in heaven. Saints are beings who live on this earth with citizenship in heaven. Our hometown is heaven, and the place we will go to is also heaven. When we have that heavenly citizenship, we become the people Almighty God rules, protects, and protects. Even if you have the citizenship of heaven like that, you should not neglect your responsibilities on this earth and do your best on this earth as well.
There is nothing more blessed than doing a man who has his own work and enjoys it (verse 22). As such, enjoy your life and your work, do your best and pursue growth by taking continuous steps in your field. If you look at Major League Baseball, there are stages. After the regular season, each team reinforces its players and conducts winter training. And when a new season starts and the regular season ends, playoffs and championship matches are played. All of those steps are important. You have to step through that step by step, not just thinking about the championship game from the time of player reinforcement.
The goal is to be the champion, but at this point, take each step and do your best at each step. Without that intermediate step, you won't be able to qualify for the Champions League. The same is true in spiritual matters. The goal is to receive a crown before God, but now it is important to keep doing it until that day. If you enjoy your life and work like that and do your best moment by moment, one day when you stand before the God of justice, you will receive a great reward according to the seeds you sowed. Be blessed spirits who always sow much and reap bountifully.